Well, as I end my second full day in the waste of the desert it is Christmas Eve.
It was not a day of shopping or planning for tomorrow, nor even looking forward to tomorrow. We do not expect any gifts and finding a tree of any kind is hard to do. We worked, wrote reports, and tried to get caught up on things that have to be done before year-end.
We are having some internal issues with changes being forced upon the workers in efforts to save more, make more and cut costs. To that end the day started with a threatened strike by the national crews, went immediately to a “town-hall” meeting that was to be in the restaurant and was actually held